I’m feeling supremely angry today.
So lets talk about the government.
In specific, lets talk about the “Bailout”.
Old topic, I know. But with the coming of tax time, and Uncle Sams greedy little fingers letting us lick them for a couple hundred bucks back of our own money, it’s relevant.
A week ago I was having a heated debate with my boyfriend, about corporate bankers and the Federal Reserve. When he quoted a number for the amount of the bailout, I didn’t believe him. So I decided to do some fact checking, and then some number crunching. Here’s what I got:
As of September of 2010 there were
308745538 documented American citizens. This figure does not include illegal immigrants or people on visas.
According to Uncle Sam, the average check of the “economic stimulus package” was an estimated $300, with some recieving more money and some recieving none at all.
On the flipside, the amount of the ‘Bailout” for corporations and banks that were failing was in total 12.8 Trillion dollars. That’s 128 with 11 zeros behind it.
$12,800,000,000,000 spent on corporations.
IF every man woman and child received the $300 tax check, then
the American people recieved $92,623,661,400. I know that this figure is not completely accurate, but is actually an overestimate of the amount of money that the american people received. For sake of ease, its better for us to over guess than understate.
The numbers as they are, lets do a little simple math and see what we come up with.
If the government had spent the money on the American people instead of corporations who make invisiable zeros and guesstimate at their figures, despite the fact that they’re rich enough to buy calcuators and hire people to do math, each and every man woman and child in the United States would have received:
$41,485.09.
Yep. 41 thousand dollars. Just what would you do with $41,000?
The same thing you did with the $300.
Pay bills (to the corporations), buy cars ( from corporations), pay off your mortgage ( from corporations), pay for college ( so you can get a job at a corporation), buy an electronic device ( from a corporation), buy clothes and food and gas and all the little things we think we need to survive ( from corporations).
See what I’m saying? The corporations all FUCKED UP. It was their own fault that they were tanking. Yet they got paid.
So things being what they are, and past being past, I have one more little figure for you.
The Bailout was wholly funded by the American People. Every red cent was paid for by the American population in order to correct a fuckup. Not A fuckup, A vast series of fuckups by corporations trying to get ahead.
Guess what? Given the figures above, the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Not just ONE person, but ALL OF US in total received just .7% of what the corporations did.
.7%
Despite the fact that all the money given to the citizens of America was spent in some way, on corporations, they received 99.3% more than we did to be able to erase some zeros and continue to fuck hard working Americans out of their houses and jobs.
I don’t know where you’re from, but in my country, I call that FINANCIAL RAPE. As far as I know rape is illegal.
Who went to fucking jail for this? Who in plush offices sits in a jail cell? Who drives fancy cars and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on cocaine, is in jail for raping each and every one of us?
No one.
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